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FEED AND BIOFUEL
SHRIMP FEED TECHNOLOGIES
HOW CAN WE HELP FEED YOUR BUSINESS?
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HOW
CAN WE HELP
FEED YOUR
BUSINESS?
Feeding and fueling the planet
Dedicated to feeding and fueling the planet
ANDRITZ is vital to ensuring a reliable global supply
of aqua feed, animal feed, pet food, and biofuel.
With full process lines accounting for half the world’s
production of aqua feed and biomass alone, we
continuously support leading producers in achieving
the highest levels in safety, quality, and control from
feedstock to final product.
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SFEEDING AND FUELING THE PLANET 2
TECHNOLOGY FOR RAISING THE BEST FARMED SHRIMP
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SHRIMP FEED 6
EXTRUDED SHRIMP FEED
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PELLETIZED SHRIMP FEED
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GRINDING 9
CONDITIONING 10
EXPANSION CONTROL SYSTEM
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VACUUM COATING 12
HORISONTAL BELT DRYER
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SOLID RELATIONSHIPS HELP ONE OF ECUADOR‘S LARGEST SHRIMP FEED PRO-DUCERS REACH JUMBO PROPORTIONS
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GLOBAL SUPPLIER – LOCAL PRESENCE 16
LET’S FEED AND FUEL YOUR BUSINESS
The future of food and energy is full of ambitious ideas such as novel nutrient blends, unique feed properties that boost conversion rates, and high capacity process lines that virtually eliminate waste. To seize upon these opportunities, feed and biofuel producers demand a partner they can trust to deliver the right production capacity with the right service and expertise today – and for decades to come.
As a partner with more than 180 years of industry experience, no one knows more about these oppor-tunities than ANDRITZ. From initial feedstock analysis to grinding, conditioning, and drying. From extrusion and pelleting all the way through to the largest parts and service supply chain on the planet. Together with leading producers in all major markets worldwide, our knowledge, services, and solutions continue to drive the evolution of tomorrow’s feed and biofuel production.
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COMPLETE PLANT SOLUTIONSANDRITZ is a leading global supplier of extrusion equipment and systems, with five manufacturing facilities, a global network of sales offices and servicecenters, and a supplementary worldwide distribution network.
We strive to be your one-stop-shop, whether your needs are for individual process machines, complete processing lines, spare parts or engineering services.
Our dedicated staff of experienced project managers and experts build plants that are easy to operate with short implementation times and proven track record – one that distinguish us from other suppliers and makes us the stand-out partner for the aqua feed processer.
With more than 180 years of feed production experience, ANDRITZ is unique in the ability to manufacture and supply every machine for aqua feed production - from raw material intake to finished feed bulk loading.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIESThe production of quality shrimp feed depends on factors such as the raw materials and formulation, but superior equipment, designed to produce a pellet has all the right attributes, is truly the key.
ANDRITZ provides aqua feed producers with the technology and services that allows for a competitive advantage.
PROVIDING CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS TO FIT YOUR EXACT NEEDS.
• Process line solutions• Unit machines• Technical consultancy• Engineering services• Aftermarket service and support
Today’s demand for cost-effective yet high quality, high-performance feeds make it clear that producing the best feed requires specialized processing technology. ANDRITZ is one of the world’s leading suppliers of technologies, systems, and services relating to advanced industrial equipment for the aqua feed industry.
Technology for raising the best farmed shrimp
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Main machines for shrimp feed processing
Hammermill
Extruder
Pellet mill
Combi-zone dryer
Conditioner
Optimix
Vacuum coater
Whether it’s sink or swim, ANDRITZ extruders will keep your aqua feed production afloat. The Expansion Control and Combi Zone Dryer combine to perfect product density and sinking speed so your aqua feed is always a big splash.
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Shrimp Feed
Access to technology with the flexibility to match the wide variety of nutritional needs and feeding behaviors that oc-cur at different developmental stages is paramount for proper ingestion and growth. Additional factors that dictate how shrimp feed is formed include where the shrimp are being raised. The use of recirculating tanks may require a dif-ferent product than shrimp produced in outdoor ponds. ANDRITZ has solutions that make it possible to address these and other crucial element in the pro-cessing of aqua feed.
Producing a sinking pellet that is water stable is the first challenge in shrimp feed production. This is achieved by full gelatinization of the available starch by fine grinding, intense conditioning, processing by pelleting and post conditioning or extrusion.
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Extruded shrimp feed
Starch is commonly used as a binder that helps hold pel-lets together but starch has very little nutritional value for shrimp. Substitution of starch with other protein sources inventible increases the nutritional value of the feed.
Ingredients are ultra-fine grinded using ANDRITZ unique double grinding technique using high-speed MultiMill hammer mills. As a second stage size reduction a pul-verizer can be introduced to ensure the demand for ultra-fine particles in the meal. Subsequently a screen-er recycles oversized particles back into the process line.
All dry ingredients are mixed thoroughly using unique dual rotation batch paddle mixer type OptiMix.
ANDRITZ extrusion technology allows producers to for-mulate a feed with a reduced starch content – reduc-ing it from the usual 25-35% inclusion to as low as 15-18% ultimately creating improved feed conversion rates and a higher quality end product. The extrusion tech-nology also allows even starter feed to be produced
BENEFITS
• Better energy conversion• Reduced formulation cost• Greater variety in raw material choices• Increased porosity/reduced density• Increased liquid addition
(up to 6 % oil addition in the vacuum coater)
• Pellet sizes ranging from 0.6 mm up to 3 mm
• Longer water stability (6-24 hours) = Less contamination
• Fewer fines
Extrusion of shrimp feed as an alternative to pelleting enables feed producers to make a more nutritional high value product.
directly on the extruder without the need for a pellet crumbler, which creates large amounts of scrap or re-cycle fines.
EXTRUDED SHRIMP FEED PROCESSING FLOW
WEIGHINGINTAKE GRINDING & MIXING COATING & COOLING SILO / OUTLOADINGEXTRUSION & DRYING
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PELLETIZED SHRIMP FEED PROCESSING FLOW
WEIGHINGINTAKE GRINDING & MIXING COATING & COOLING SILO / OUTLOADINGPELLETING
Pelletized Shrimp Feed
When comparing pelleting and extru-sion plants the capital investments are smaller for pelleting mainly due to the more expensive extruder and dryer both in terms of capital investment and op-erational costs with energy and wear parts.
Ingredients are ultra-fine grinded using ANDRITZ unique double grinding tech-nique using high-speed MultiMill ham-mer mills. As a second stage size reduc-tion a pulverizer can be introduced to ensure the demand for ultra-fine parti-cles in the meal. Subsequently a screen-er recycles oversized particles back into the process line.
All dry ingredients are mixed thoroughly using unique dual rotation batch paddle mixer type OptiMix.
Prior to pelleting an intense, high tem-perature and long conditioning time
ensures complete adsorption of add-ed liquids and activation of available starch vital for required water stability of finished product.
Dies for shrimp feed applications are carefully selected and this will lead to excellent pellet durability and conse-quently long and good water stability and full sinkability.
Steam infusion in the post condition-er gives an energy supplement and ensures that the temperature of pel-lets leaving the pellet mill is maintained for the entire retention time leading to complete starch activation.
A vacuum coater ensures that any nec-essary oil is deeply integrated into the pellet.
For shrimp feed applications ANDRITZ also offers conventional and well-proven pelleting process lines using ring dies and post conditioners
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GrindingFine grinding is essential to good pellet quality
The correct combination of hammer mill type, screens, hammers, peripheral speed, feeding system, and air flow through the hammer mill ensures the required grinding results and creates optimum conditions for subsequent processes, such as mixing, pelleting, and extrusion. Thus, the grinding process is not merely a question of the hammer mill alone, but also includes everything from feed system to discharge hopper, as-piration filter, and electronic control system.
The rotor of the MultiMill series is uniquely designed to allow different hammer-to-screen distance in order to further adjust the particle size distribution.
Multimills are small circle grinders, equipped with two pole motors for high-speed fine and ultra-fine grinding applications such as shrimp and aqua feed. They come in a variety of sizes from 630 mm to 1400 mm long and can be installed in a unique double grinding stack.
FEEDING SYSTEMSBy feeding the material over the full length of the grinding chamber, the particle size can be controlled accurately and the hammers and screens have uniform loading, resulting in longer lifetime of wear parts and higher output per kilowatt.
The feed system, which is available as double screw and separator or as pocket feeder with integrated separator and distribution roll, can be adjusted to suit all raw material types.
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The extrusion or pelleting process starts with prime raw materials, precise and accurate dosing, optimum grinding and perfect mixing. However the ac-tual process line always begins with a vital conditioning step where liquids are introduced together with steam which moisturizes and prepares the find ground meal for further processing in an extrusion or pelleting step. ANDRITZ offers a wide range of conditioner to suit demands and applications includ-ing single shaft and double shaft condi-tioners. All conditioner setup are built to fit customer expectations in respects to re-tention time (>120 seconds) and meal tem-perature to ensure the optimal preparation before entering the extruder.
Andritz offers a hot start conditioner. It works by taking a portion of meal, closing inlet and outlet and steam heating un-til desired temperature set point has been reached. This ensures that even thefirst meal leaving the conditioner is properly heated preventing recycling or scrapping saving valuable time and resources.
ConditioningGood pellet quality comes from intense conditioning
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An easy way to adjust bulk density
Expansion control system is an unique option to ANDRITZ extruders.
ECS is a unique and patented option for ANDRITZ extruders, which enable pre-cise regulation of the pellet expansion right on the outlet of the die plate. A carefully manufactured rotary value sits on the outlet of the knife house and en-ables pressurization of the knife house with up to 3 bar(g).
The positive pressure prevents exces-sive expansion and problems with pel-let sinkability. This feature minimizes the adding water into extruder in order to reduce expansion, which is subsequent-ly very costly to evaporate in the dryer and therefore ensures lower operation cost of the product.
Expansion Control System
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Unique design provides excellent results
Vacuum Coating
BENEFITS OF THE VACUUM COATING SYSTEM
• High levels of liquid addition Up to 35 % of dry matter weight in fish feed
• Micro ingredients addition Enzyme down to 0,01%
• High spraying efficiency Addition of micro liquids
• Gentle product handling No dust created
• Vacuum pressure Suitable for 10 mbar
• Flexibility Large batch size Prepared for capacity scale-up
• Two models for wide capacity range
The gentle agitation that takes place in the vacuum coating system, prevents damage to shrimp feed pellets.
The feed is gently conveyed into the vacuum coater vertically. The vertical screw disperses the product across the top of the barrel in a thin layer where it is exposed to the addition of liquid in-gredients assuring uniform distribution and coating liquids onto the pellets.
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Horisontal belt dryer
ADVANTAGES OF THE COMBI ZONE DRYER• Gentle handling of products• High energy efficiency in costs per ton• Drying process with respect to nutritive value• Product size range of 0.6-40 mm• Mesh belt for micro pellets• Uniform drying of each pellet• Excellent control at every step of the drying process• Adjustable retention time• Servo-driven pellet spreader
FEATURES OF THE COMBI ZONE DRYER• Gentle and efficient drying• Individual drying zones• Temperature control in each zone (50-135° C)• Control of drying time per deck (15-90 min.)• Control of air flow direction for each zone• Hygienic design with automatic cleaning system
and removal of fines in each deck (not included in the basic package)
• Integrated drying air system by means of direct gas-fired burners or indirect steam exchanger
• Integrated safety devices• Easy access to operating systems for maintenance
and cleaning• Modular design for easy installation and upgrading• Insulated cabinet• Configuration flexibility – available in two belt
widths and with 1-4 decks• Several accessories and options to match specific
requirements• Standard execution in mild steel and optional in
stainless
The ANDRITZ Combi Zone Dryer is unique belt dryer with multiple drying and cooling zones providing full control of the drying process. Equipped with a mesh belt it also supports micro-pellets.
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In order to cover the full shrimp production cycles, Em-pagran bought the feed manufacturing plant ABA Balanceados in 1998, which is located just a few kilo-meters away from their shrimp pools, the Somar pack-ing plant and their headquarters in Guayaquil. Shortly after the January 1998 purchase, an expansion of the ABA plant was completed, allowing Empagran to pro-duce 6,500Kg bags of feed per month.
At the time of this first expansion, ANDRITZ extruders were chosen for their ability to perfect a dense pellet that will not lose its structure underwater. Production manager, Mauricio Vernaza explains, “Since shrimp are bottom feeders, the pellet must hold together long enough to be discovered by crustaceans roaming the bottoms of the grow-out pond and they must also be dense enough that they do not float. Sinking must occur in just a matter of seconds or shrimp feed quickly becomes bird food.”
Equally as important as the “sinkability” of the pellet, is the nutritive quality of shrimp feed. Shrimp feed is complex because it must be nutritionally balanced as well as properly sized for healthy growth at each stage of shrimp development from larvae to adult. “We are continuously improving our nutritional formulas thanks to direct interaction with shrimp and tilapia farms and research groups in the field, with whom we verify the direct results of feed conversion.” ANDRITZ extruders
Solid relationships help one of Ecuador‘s largest shrimp feed producers reach jumbo proportions
allow ABA to produce the right-sized pellet to match the life cycle and nutritional needs of the shrimp.
“The quality and certifications we have been awarded due to our extensive research and development have led to very high demand for our pelletized and ex-truded shrimp and fish feed. We sell approximately 85% of the feed we produce to farms throughout Ecuador and many other countries, with the remaining 20% used for the feeding of our own stock.”
This growth has prompted the addition of another new plant. The new ABA plant will provide growth areas in the extrusion product line to meet the growing de-mand for Empagran feed.
Empagran, the parent company of ABA Balanceados and pioneers in the de-velopment of aquaculture diets, is a fully integrated aquaculture company dedi -cated to the entire shrimp production chain. They manufacture feed for shrimp and tilapia for more than 45 years.
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Having enjoyed a long and prosperous working re-lationship of approximately 20 years with ANDRITZ, Empagran will once again install an ANDRITZ extruder.
ANDRITZ was chosen because of their product qua lity and knowledge and because Empagran’s familiarity with their products means less operational training will be needed and implementation will be faster. “How-ever, it is not only because they are a leading brand known for their quality,” Vernaza stated unequivocally, “they also have excellent post-sales services. Logistics
are never a problem with ANDRITZ – with other com-panies, located in other countries, there are language and time challenges that Empagran does not encoun-ter with ANDRITZ because they have representatives and product centers nearby to coordinate and man-age projects locally.”
“With ANDRITZ I am comfortable knowing there is someone covering my back, someone responsive, who will return my calls to work on challenges when they are presented. But the biggest reason we chose ANDRITZ is that they are a good group of people who are always so easy to work with, and together, we are a team.”
The new production line is now in the commission pe-riod with the full operational launch planned to occur later this month, April 2018. The new production line will add up to 25,000 tons of feed per year. Currently, ABA is the biggest and most auto mated plant in Ecua-dor, and even though it has the capacity to produce any kind of feed, it has specialized in making feed for shrimp its primary focus.
“With ANDRITZ I am comfortable knowing there is someone covering my back, someone responsive, who will return my calls to work on challenges when they are presented. But the biggest reason we chose ANDRITZ is that they are a good group of people who are always so easy to work with, and together, we are a team.“MAURICIO VERNAZA Production manager, ABA Balanceado, Ecuador.
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GLOBAL SUPPLIER – LOCAL PRESENCE
With sales, service, engineering, manufacturing and production sites located all around the world, ANDRITZ Feed and Biofuel is truly a global organization with a local presence. ANDRITZ is vital to ensuring a reliable global supply of aqua feed, animal feed, pet food, and biofuel. With full process lines accounting for half the world’s production of aqua feed and biomass alone, we continuously support leading producers in achieving the highest levels in safety, quality, and control from feedstock to final product.
How can we help grow your business?
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